Enemies in Jungle Japes often include snakes (often very big ones), monkeys and apes, colorful birds, insects and spiders, the aforementioned crocodiles and piranha, restless and savage natives, and the occasional lion, tiger or other big cat. Most of them are, you guessed it, trying to kill you.

Beetle Adventure Racing has Inferno Isle, a tropical Island that, while mostly being Jungle, has a small town, a volcano, a Jurassic Park section that features a T. Rex lunging out at your car and, of course, a town of huts on fire in the final stretch.

Yoshi's Island is depicted as a tropical island most of the time and occasionally this overlaps with jungle. In Paper Mario, Lavalava Island, which is inhabited by Yoshis, is a tropical island with a dense jungle. In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, the eponymous island is the entire game world, and therefore has a wider range of environs (one of them being indeed Jungle Japes, namely World 3). Yoshi's Story has page 4, and Yoshi's Woolly World has World 4.

The first two games of the Paper Mario series each have one, and they're both in Chapter 5 (out of 8) of their respective games. The Land of the Cragnons from the third game is more Prehistoria, but it does have some elements of this trope. World 5 of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, the aptly-named Shy Guy Jungle, plays this straight for the first few levels but switches to Lethal Lava Land for the last two.

EverQuest has several. The Feerott (homeland of the ogres and lizardmen), the Emerald Jungle and Trakanon's Teeth (full of ruined cities and too many dangerous creatures to be anyone's homeland).

EverQuest II brings back The Feerott and combines Emerald Jungle and Trakanon's Teeth into a new zone called the Kunzar Jungle. Then there's the Eidolon Jungle, an extraplanar reflection of The Feerott.

Substantial portions of Far Cry take place on jungle islands. While Far Cry 2 and Far Cry 4 had steered away from the junglesnote Far Cry 2, while still having jungle areas, had Savannah and desert areas., Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon return to tropical islands with lush green jungles.

Lots in the later Wario Land games. Wario Land 4 has Monsoon Jungle and Mystic Lake, while Wario Land Shake It has an entire world based around a jungle (complete with the aptly named Ropey Jungle, Soggybog River and Riverbloat Rapids taking the general jungle theme).

Metroid: Other M has Sector 1, the Biosphere, which is mostly an artificial jungle. Plants try to eat you and stuff like that. The backgrounds are pretty, but they are artificial, and once you find the generators, soon replaced by the space station architecture.

The world of Gaia Online features the Otami Ruins, where the player must go to gain the ability to breathe water, allowing them to access the whirlpool leading to the final dungeon. In a twist, the main danger of this area doesn't come from the wildlife (which is merely decoration), nor even the natives, but the artifacts that are coming to life and attacking everyone. Even the enemies that look human turn out to be just animated fetishes.

The Maguuma Jungle of Guild Wars, though it occurs later in the game than usual for this trope. The main hazards here are killer plants, giant bugs, the occasional centaur tribe, and the army of the local Church Militant that's out for your blood. Also the Tarnished Coast, which has dinosaurs, frogmen, and snakemen along with most of the above

The Lion King does this loosely in the "Hakuna Matata" level. Simba jumps on frogs, spiders, the boss being a gorilla that throws boulders at you, and jumping on logs in the waterfalls.

The Trope Namer is also used as a stage◊ in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl, featuring two small side platforms, a main stage with a platform hanging low above it, rushing water below (in Melee, it just pushes you very quickly; in Brawl, you can swim in it, but staying in it for any length of time is suicidal), and crocodile-like Klaptraps which periodically attacks the spaces between the platforms. The original Nintendo 64 game also features C/Kongo Jungle◊ (not to be confused with the Melee version), which has its own complex platform layout and a barrel underneath that can save lucky (or savvy) players.

The first two levels of the last chapter of Jazz Jackrabbit 2 featured a jungle, and the first level of the same chapter was even called "Jungle Japes".

In Snoopy's Grand Adventure, the first world, "Peppermint Jungle", takes place in a jungle, where the goal is to rescue Peppermint Patty. Enemies in this world include snakes, spiders, bats, and fish. The boss of this world is a giant wooden mask that resembles Peppermint Patty, which you defeat by tossing baseballs at it via seesaws.

World of Warcraft has Stranglethorn Vale (which is further split into Northern Stranglethorn and the Cape of Stranglethorn). Feralas, Un'Goro Crater also seem to fit the definition. Wrath of the Lich King had the Scholazar Basin and Mists of Pandaria has the Krasarang Wilds.

Strider has the Amazon stage in the arcade version, and the Africa stage in the NES version.

The second planet, Diva, in Blender Bros is completely covered it jungle. It's also the only planet in the game to not have any urban or mechanical elements, being mostly unpopulated.

After leaving his desert homeworld, Rosa, the protagonist of Rogue Galaxy crash-lands on the jungle planet of Juraika. In a thriving futuristic star system, Juraika is one of the few planets with almost no advanced technology. But the inhabitants of the planet very much want to keep it that way.

Paladins has many jungle/temple-themed maps, such as Frog Isle, Jaguar Falls, and Serpent Beach for Siege mode, Hidden Temple for Payload mode, and Primal Court for Onslaught mode. In early development, there was a large map called Temple Isle, but it was reworked and divided into Frog Isle, Jaguar Falls, and Serpent Beach.

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